Crowdsourcing in general is illegal because of hucksters tricking people out of their investment dollars. Only when you have a detailed, SEC-approved prospectus can you sell shares publicly as a C-corp. This is an expensive endeavor for small operations. So they raise "private" money, but mostly from accredited investors, who are supposedly rich enough to not do stupid things with their money. Or at least have the resources to sue the people running the company. Kinda arbitrary. But the key is that a company cannot publicly solicit investors.
I think that crowdsourcing is a great idea, but we need to be sure to cover the potential for abuse. There's a reason the laws are in place. I'd love to be able to raise some cash this way.
Well, what if it was part of larger harassment? Like, say, the SSID was HattaBlowsGoats or something worse. Would that be protected speech? What IS allowable to have for an SSID? Or does intent matter?
I'm not sure that Bush would win that one (maybe in his 30-year-old brain, but not the mush he has now), but you bring up an interesting point: Sending e-mails is not being technologically adept. Is e-mail more complicated than a phone call? Can the average person really describe how either works?
I hate the temporary nature of digital photographs. Who goes back and looks at digital pics from five years ago? Is that easy to do?
My idea: print out an album for every calendar year. A nice one, like what Shutterfly produces. Shutterfly -- now that is what Kodak should have done (and better, too).
I'm an occasional user of Claritin. I remember when Clarinex came out and thought -- now why would I want this when Claritin works just fine and is pretty cheap? As far as I can tell, Clarinex died a quiet death. Good riddance.
A drug trial can literally run more than $10M easily. Are you telling me that a government should fund every companies clinical trial at $10M a pop? Don't clinical research orgs. stand to make a *lot* of money off of that?
Or should the government decide who gets this clinical trial money? Not sure if you know this, but the government isn't always the best judge of which companies / ideas to support.
We're not talking about a job, we're talking about getting angel & venture funding for entrepreneurs. BIG difference. A football analogy: every old rich white guy is fine with a black running back, but when one wants to be QB or coach then they start to get uptight. Same with an up-and-coming CEO -- the bigwigs want someone that looks familiar to them.
Solid modelers like SolidWorks, Pro/E, etc. are Windows-only products. SolidWorks in particular is entangled with Microsoft products (design tables must be done in Excel!).
I got out of a Verizon contract doing this. They changed some fee from $1.65 to $1.95 per month. I was a customer for years, so I didn't feel too guilty...
Interesting point about AppleTV -- that should be cool, and would be great to demo in the store. But they don't! Ideally it would be the *best* thing to demo in-store as it isn't portable like the other products. Apparently it's not cool enough, so it isn't allowed in stores. Sounds like MS only has a couple cool products worth showing off, and the rest is just filler. The filler makes it look pathetic.
Really? I'm sure states differ, but I sign next to my typewritten name at the polling place since I register beforehand. Where do you only need a signature, can sign by any name you want (without being asked your name)? Is that Hawaiian policy?
Were there more than a couple votes difference between the winning and losing candidates?
And please give more of the story. Were they able to register without being citizens, or did they simply pretend to be someone else?
We're talking about grants here, and an important way to judge if someone is capable of doing something worthwhile with free money is to see what they have done in the past. That means publications usually, and it's hard to cite those without exposing the author's names. You can't depend on the research plan alone, since they are so short. Unfortunately reviewer's racist biases are showing through.
Journals, however, should be blinded to the authors, even though that would be hard to do. Having done peer review myself, I find it easier to recommend publication if a field expert is one of the authors (it's hard not to). Usually authors build upon previous work, and with those citations it's pretty obvious who the authors are, even if they aren't explicitly listed.
I hope this gets more publicity, so reviewers can be shamed into being less biased, if that is at all possible.
NoDak is doing well because of the tiny Bank of North Dakota?
I thought it was because of several great years of farming combined with a huge ramp-up of oil drilling.
I call bullshit. Did the SEC demand that mortgage brokers hand out NINA mortgages (no-income, no-assets)? No, the upstream demand for mortgage-backed securities is what drove the availability of cheap money. And since those mortgage-backed securities were AAA-rated, everyone wanted to invest! Until the house of cards fell down. Blaming this on the little Community Reinvestment Act, which amounted to a tiny fraction of subprime loans, is ludicrous.
That's the only time when ours is in use --- when we put the baby down at 8:00 until we go to bed at 10:00. He's otherwise in daycare or we are in the room next to his.
Simple question, though: got any neighbors with babies?
There's a new "look" for robotic surgery that uses intraoperative imaging (ultrasound, MRI, CT, fluoro), as the "eyes" as opposed to cameras, which merely duplicate the function of the eyes. It will be especially useful for percutaneous operations, but the possibilities go beyond that...
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Crowdsourcing in general is illegal because of hucksters tricking people out of their investment dollars. Only when you have a detailed, SEC-approved prospectus can you sell shares publicly as a C-corp. This is an expensive endeavor for small operations. So they raise "private" money, but mostly from accredited investors, who are supposedly rich enough to not do stupid things with their money. Or at least have the resources to sue the people running the company. Kinda arbitrary. But the key is that a company cannot publicly solicit investors. I think that crowdsourcing is a great idea, but we need to be sure to cover the potential for abuse. There's a reason the laws are in place. I'd love to be able to raise some cash this way.
Well, what if it was part of larger harassment? Like, say, the SSID was HattaBlowsGoats or something worse. Would that be protected speech? What IS allowable to have for an SSID? Or does intent matter?
I'm not sure that Bush would win that one (maybe in his 30-year-old brain, but not the mush he has now), but you bring up an interesting point: Sending e-mails is not being technologically adept. Is e-mail more complicated than a phone call? Can the average person really describe how either works?
I hate the temporary nature of digital photographs. Who goes back and looks at digital pics from five years ago? Is that easy to do? My idea: print out an album for every calendar year. A nice one, like what Shutterfly produces. Shutterfly -- now that is what Kodak should have done (and better, too).
I'm an occasional user of Claritin. I remember when Clarinex came out and thought -- now why would I want this when Claritin works just fine and is pretty cheap? As far as I can tell, Clarinex died a quiet death. Good riddance.
A drug trial can literally run more than $10M easily. Are you telling me that a government should fund every companies clinical trial at $10M a pop? Don't clinical research orgs. stand to make a *lot* of money off of that? Or should the government decide who gets this clinical trial money? Not sure if you know this, but the government isn't always the best judge of which companies / ideas to support.
We're not talking about a job, we're talking about getting angel & venture funding for entrepreneurs. BIG difference. A football analogy: every old rich white guy is fine with a black running back, but when one wants to be QB or coach then they start to get uptight. Same with an up-and-coming CEO -- the bigwigs want someone that looks familiar to them.
Solid modelers like SolidWorks, Pro/E, etc. are Windows-only products. SolidWorks in particular is entangled with Microsoft products (design tables must be done in Excel!).
I got out of a Verizon contract doing this. They changed some fee from $1.65 to $1.95 per month. I was a customer for years, so I didn't feel too guilty...
Interesting point about AppleTV -- that should be cool, and would be great to demo in the store. But they don't! Ideally it would be the *best* thing to demo in-store as it isn't portable like the other products. Apparently it's not cool enough, so it isn't allowed in stores. Sounds like MS only has a couple cool products worth showing off, and the rest is just filler. The filler makes it look pathetic.
Really? I'm sure states differ, but I sign next to my typewritten name at the polling place since I register beforehand. Where do you only need a signature, can sign by any name you want (without being asked your name)? Is that Hawaiian policy?
Were there more than a couple votes difference between the winning and losing candidates? And please give more of the story. Were they able to register without being citizens, or did they simply pretend to be someone else?
Typical MRI scanner is 1.5 Tesla, although 3 Tesla is becoming more common all the time...
Who did the review? Climate skeptics that are friends of the editor. How do you think they find reviewers?
We're talking about grants here, and an important way to judge if someone is capable of doing something worthwhile with free money is to see what they have done in the past. That means publications usually, and it's hard to cite those without exposing the author's names. You can't depend on the research plan alone, since they are so short. Unfortunately reviewer's racist biases are showing through. Journals, however, should be blinded to the authors, even though that would be hard to do. Having done peer review myself, I find it easier to recommend publication if a field expert is one of the authors (it's hard not to). Usually authors build upon previous work, and with those citations it's pretty obvious who the authors are, even if they aren't explicitly listed. I hope this gets more publicity, so reviewers can be shamed into being less biased, if that is at all possible.
I believe the phrase is "if it ain't broke don't fix it". FTFY
NoDak is doing well because of the tiny Bank of North Dakota? I thought it was because of several great years of farming combined with a huge ramp-up of oil drilling.
The gigabit ethernet is nice, but that's just the internal network. The connection to the Internet is what Google is working on.
Just tweak your code to forward all fractional cents to you. It's so easy even Richard Pryor can do it!
I call bullshit. Did the SEC demand that mortgage brokers hand out NINA mortgages (no-income, no-assets)? No, the upstream demand for mortgage-backed securities is what drove the availability of cheap money. And since those mortgage-backed securities were AAA-rated, everyone wanted to invest! Until the house of cards fell down. Blaming this on the little Community Reinvestment Act, which amounted to a tiny fraction of subprime loans, is ludicrous.
That's the only time when ours is in use --- when we put the baby down at 8:00 until we go to bed at 10:00. He's otherwise in daycare or we are in the room next to his. Simple question, though: got any neighbors with babies?
A long essay on the evils of PowerPoint by the man, Ed Tufte, regarding the shuttle explosions: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1
There's a new "look" for robotic surgery that uses intraoperative imaging (ultrasound, MRI, CT, fluoro), as the "eyes" as opposed to cameras, which merely duplicate the function of the eyes. It will be especially useful for percutaneous operations, but the possibilities go beyond that...
LimitedConnectivity Scares most away...
I'd say your place lies between first and eighth...